Musings of Exas...

Sunday, February 25, 2007

Memento - Stunning screenplay!


Memento, a nervewracking psychological thriller, is one of the best modern day works... The film is directed by the "christoper nolan" and the movie is based on the short story "memento mon"

The speciality of this film is "reverse screenplay", the sequence of the film is in reverse order.. Initially, the viewers wont understand anything. but as the movie goes, the knots are tied dramatically!

The lead actors Guy pearce and Carrie-Anne Moss have done a excellent job. Especially guy pearce has shown an impeccable acting! ( this guy really rocks! peak!)

The plot is this.. Hero suffers from a medical disorder namely "short-term memory loss" and forgets any new kindaa memory within few minutes... wat all he remembers is this! someone has killed his wife and he is on the verge of revenge! He relates everything he come across using fotos, tatoos and some paper snippets...


Memento, a critically acclaimed movie, a box-office success and has got many awards round the globe. It has got highly-coveted OSCAR for " BEST SCREENPLAY AND EDITING"...It is ranked as the 26th best movie evermade by IMDB.


Everyone loves this movie! neither a pure nor a commercial cinema.. yet, blockbuster perfection! really rocks!


PS: Ghajini, a tamil movie is based on the inspiration of this movie. Except the term "short-term memory loss", this movie is in no way comparable with the original one.. But, ghajini was a desi adaptation and some commercial elements are added to spice up things!





Sunday, February 18, 2007

Pachai kili muthucharam


Pachai kili muthucharam, the name seems very weird and created lotta hype. Its neither spectacular nor mediocre, but an average film from gautham... i was very much eager to get a glimpse of the movie, surprisingly i got a ticket today.. very much surprised! (rarely u get a ticket for a tamil cinema on 3rd day :) )

This movie is all about extra-martial affair (what i think, but not really! no romance) and someone so called villain enters the scenario and does emotional blackmail, threatens him (hero) and even gets money frequently from him.. somehow our hero realises so called heroism and does gets out of the web!

yep, we saw this kindaa stuff (i mean the "plot") many times... but wats the difference? The presentation seems somewhat unique and lead actors done a neat job...

As a viewer, iam totally dejected with the first half ( extremely extremely boringgggggggggggggg!) and the second half is lot better than it...

i'm a fan of gautham direction because of his slick production values.. if ur gonna pay sixty rupees you either expect a wholesome entertainment or a good movie! but it doesn't have any ( iam sorry!) so i need the director to understand the audience view of the film or he should take a movie only for film festivals...


This is what i see, but it may differ... so sorry for gautham fans..


byeeeeeeeeee